Black Dragon Code

Gold and Silver Town is an important town in the south of the Kingdom of Ebo, with one-third of the country’s ore sources. It used to be the center of the entire Kingdom of Ebo, but now, it has just managed to get out of the vortex of power struggles between the royal family and princes. independent town.

This is undoubtedly a tragedy, but also a kind of irony. The dirty transactions between the nobles and lords of the Eb kingdom are non-stop, and they are combined vertically, horizontally, far and near, and provide enough creativity for bards to compose various stories. with material.

Caesar was walking on the bustling streets of Gold and Silver Town. Since half of the men in Gold and Silver Town were miners or blacksmiths, the folk style was tougher than the brave northerners. A strong man wearing a simple fur with his upper body exposed.

Unlike most human cities: there are many halflings here.

The number of halflings in Eladea is much larger than that of any other humanoid race, and there is no unified political power. Halflings with amazing reproductive and surviving abilities can be seen everywhere, but there are particularly many in Gold and Silver Town. The town goes south around the Thorn Mountains, and the endless prairie is the border of the halflings. They have fought with the Eb people for hundreds of years to compete for mineral veins and territories, and the halflings' ability to prospect mines and craft is also what humans need. Therefore, in some border towns of the Ebo Kingdom, there was a strange situation where the two sides cut each other when the war started, and did business together when the war ceased.

The Ebs and halflings in Gold and Silver Town have always maintained such a weird tacit understanding, but recently, with the influx of a large number of adventurers, the town has become a mess, and the town is full of Yukla Hill, Nine-headed giant monster and other rumors.

Caesar kept a low profile and looked around like a fledgling adventurer. The mercenaries roaring and passing by on the street were windy under their feet, and trampled over a roadside washing machine with the sound of leather armor colliding. Basin, along with knocking down the owner, glanced at it without caring and left.

Caesar took a closer look and found that the one knocked down was a female centaur. Her upper body was basically the same as that of an ordinary human. Her yellowish hair was combed behind her head. She was wearing a commoner garment with large patches, and her lower body was a pair of well-tailored trousers. skirt.

She propped her hands on the ground, curled up her hooves, stood up again in a slightly difficult posture, patted the dust on the hakama, looked at the newly stained stains in embarrassment, and looked miserable.

Caesar bent down to pick up the washbasin that had been kicked to his feet, took two steps forward, and handed it over.

The female centaur glanced at him in surprise, and thanked him in a low voice, her voice was exactly the same as that of a human being. She took the basin, scooped a spoonful of water in the water tank next to the entrance of the house, and rinsed it again.

Caesar didn't look down, looked at her slightly wagging tail, and said, It seems that living here is not easy.

Apocalypse,

gentlemen.

The image shown by Caesar was not a high-ranking person, and the centaur did not turn his head, but read in a low voice: A sudden fire burned all our savings, and my husband was forced to go into the mountains to be a guide for outsiders like you. They said they were looking for Yukla, Goddess, it is an extremely dangerous gamble, the dire wolves, the strong mane and the mountain demon in the mountain...

As she spoke, she choked up, her voice full of sadness and grief.

What happened to him?

The centaur turned around: The earthquake came suddenly. Maybe it wasn't an earthquake. People said it was caused by the Hydra.

My husband was on a rough mountain road, and the earthquake brought rolling rocks. She sobbed. Those outsiders didn't even bring his body back.

I regret that.

Caesar sighed, this is indeed a sad story, and when the female centaur calmed down a bit, he continued: In a sense, I am like them, an explorer from the north, can Tell me the latest news? I heard the locals shouting the rumors of Yukrathil and the nine-headed monster. Sorry for reminding you of the sad past, this is a small reward.

As he spoke, he took out a silver coin from his pocket, thought for a while, took out another one, and put it in the palm of the centaur.

Too much, sir. I don't have any secrets. Some stories that everyone knows are not worth that much money. The centaur took a look and declined.

The Ebo Kingdom, which relies on ore and smelting as its pillars, is not rich and developed, and the prices and living costs are not much higher. Two silvers can only drink two meals of wine in the trading city-state, but they can live for a week here. In the eyes of centaurs This is indeed a lot of money.

Caesar said a few words, but she still accepted it.

Thank you for your generosity, sir. Please come in and rest while I try to tell you all I know.

At the invitation of the men and horses, Caesar walked into this street hut. The room was not big, with a low window on the left and right sides, and a wooden couch next to the wall opposite the entrance door, with a cupboard between it and the low window. , the top is facing each other, and there are three drawers below.

There is also a mirror in the corner, with a few cracks on the edge, and the pattern on the wooden base is so simple that it is not aesthetically pleasing, like a perfunctory product that has been sketched randomly.

Caesar found a place to sit down. There was a smell of sawdust in the room. It seemed that it had just been newly built. In addition, there was a faint smell of mutton, which was the breath of the centaur.

The nine-headed giant snake is not a recent news. A long time ago, there were legends about it in the Kingdom of Eb, and some halfling clans living in the prairie occasionally told their stories.

The centaur poured a glass of water for Caesar, and then knelt down on his knees: It is rumored that it wanders through the dangerous peaks of the Thorn Mountains and the cracks in the ground, and devours all living things that can be swallowed. It is said that it has an immortal body and must be cut off at the same time It needs a head to kill it, it is a kilometer long and has ninety-nine teeth full of venom.

Originally this was just a legend of gods and monsters, just as groundless as the legend of the black dragon that ate the world in the north, but I heard that a month and a half ago, the nine-headed giant snake appeared with Ukla Hill. At that time, most of the miners in the Thorn Mountains, The adventurers were all dead, and only a few living people ran out to bring back the news, and then they also went crazy, and soon all died.

People in the town are in a panic. Some people say that the Hydra will destroy everything. Some say that the Hydra holds the branches of the World Tree in its mouth and waits for the warrior to challenge. Many people plan to leave here and take refuge in other parts of the kingdom. My husband and I I originally planned to leave too. But I don’t know why, this news has attracted many outsiders, these wealthy foreigners have brought a lot of vitality to the town, so we stayed, who knows...

Caesar nodded as he listened, and thought slowly. In his memory attic, he did not find any news about the Hydra, which basically proved that this creature did not exist before Elradia.

The Hydra is either a farce that has been misrepresented, or it is an unknown creature that has not yet been discovered.

Other than that. Caesar pondered for a moment, then asked, Has it ever appeared before?

No, it's just that many people have disappeared for unknown reasons recently. Most of them are adventurers who went to the Thorn Mountains. Without their loud voices, the people in the town would not get any other news.

Caesar smiled and stood up: Thank you for the news, these news are very useful to me.

Thank you for your generosity, sir, and may the goddess bless you. The centaur stood up and bowed, thanking again.

Nodding his head, Caesar took two steps back, turned and walked towards the door, opened the wooden door, and when he was about to leave, he suddenly lowered his head and said, Mmm, I think that if Abe's life is not easy, the north might be a good place to go. place.

Northern... the woman Ma repeated, it was the first time she heard such comfort.

Caesar did not explain, walked out of the house, closed the wooden door, and behaved exactly like a normal human. Afterwards, he asked the doppelganger lurking in Eb, and the result was almost the same as what the centaur said, and there was no more inside information.

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